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DH Ep:60 AIDS
In June of 1981, the CDC published a brief report about five young gay men in Los Angeles diagnosed with a rare pneumonia. Two were already dead. Tha…
8 months ago
DH Ep:59 Did We Fake The Moon Landing?
In this special follow-up to our Space Race episode, we dive headfirst into one of the most persistent conspiracy theories in American history. Did N…
8 months ago
DH Ep:58 The Bay Of Pigs
On October twenty-seventh, nineteen sixty-two, the world came within a single vote of nuclear annihilation. Deep beneath the Caribbean Sea, Soviet su…
8 months ago
DH Ep:57 The McCarthy Hearings: America's Reign of Fear
In the spring of 1954, Wyoming Senator Lester Hunt walked into his Senate office with a rifle hidden beneath his overcoat. Weeks of blackmail by alli…
8 months, 1 week ago
DH Ep:56 Brain Candy
In this special episode of Disturbing History, we step away from ancient mysteries and infamous crimes to confront something far closer and far more …
8 months, 1 week ago
DH Ep:55 The Cold War
On the night of September 26th, 1983, a Soviet lieutenant colonel named Stanislav Petrov sat in a bunker monitoring early warning systems when alarms…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
DH Ep:54 The War On Drugs
What if the War on Drugs was never really about drugs at all?In this episode of Disturbing History, we pull back the curtain on a devastating truth. …
8 months, 2 weeks ago
DH Ep:53 American Concentration Camps
Disturbing History exists to sit with the parts of our past we’d rather avoid—the moments that force us to ask who we really are when fear takes over…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
DH Ep:52 The Weird Meteor
On the morning of December 14, 1807, the residents of southwestern Connecticut witnessed something that would change the course of American science f…
9 months ago
DH Ep:51 The Odyssey Project: Kids For Sale
In August of 1973, Houston police were still pulling bodies from the dirt floor of Dean Corll’s boat shed when a frightened young man in Dallas picke…
9 months ago